The Return of the Native
.pdfTHOMAS HARDY
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE
Москва, 2018
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Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native / T. Hardy. – М. : T8RUGRAM / Original, 2018. – 526 с.
ISBN 978-5-521-06906-4
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. «The Return of the Native» illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies. Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia’s. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them: Damon Wildeve, Eustacia’s former lover, Clym’s mother and his cousin Thomasin.
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CONTENTS
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
BOOK ONE
THE THREE WOMEN
Chapter 1. A FACE ON WHICH TIME MAKES
BUT LITTLE IMPRESSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2. HUMANITY APPEARS UPON
THE SCENE, HAND IN HAND WITH TROUBLE . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 3. THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 4. THE HALT ON THE TURNPIKE
ROAD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 5. PERPLEXITY AMONG HONEST
PEOPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 6. THE FIGURE AGAINST THE SKY. . . . . . . . . . 75
Chapter 7. QUEEN OF NIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Chapter 8. THOSE WHO ARE FOUND WHERE THERE
IS SAID TO BE NOBODY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Chapter 9. LOVE LEADS A SHREWD MAN
INTO STRATEGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Chapter 10. A DESPERATE ATTEMPT
AT PERSUASION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Chapter 11. THE DISHONESTY OF AN HONEST
WOMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
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BOOK TWO
THE ARRIVAL
Chapter 1. TIDINGS OF THE COMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Chapter 2. THE PEOPLE AT BLOOMS-END
MAKE READY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Chapter 3. HOW A LITTLE SOUND
PRODUCED A GREAT DREAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Chapter 4. EUSTACIA IS LED ON
TO AN ADVENTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
Chapter 5. THROUGH THE MOONLIGHT . . . . . . . . . . .173
Chapter 6. THE TWO STAND FACE TO FACE . . . . . . . .182
Chapter 7. A COALITION BETWEEN BEAUTY
AND ODDNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
Chapter 8. FIRMNESS IS DISCOVERED
IN A GENTLE HEART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
BOOK THREE
THE FASCINATION
Chapter 1. “MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS” . . . . . .221 Chapter 2. THE NEW COURSE CAUSES DISAPPOINTMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227 Chapter 3. THE FIRST ACT IN A TIMEWORN
DRAMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238 Chapter 4. AN HOUR OF BLISS AND MANY
HOURS OF SADNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255 Chapter 5. SHARP WORDS ARE SPOKEN,
AND A CRISIS ENSUES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265 Chapter 6МYEOBRIGHT GOES,
AND THE BREACH IS COMPLETE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274
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Chapter 7. THE MORNING AND THE EVENING
OF A DAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
Chapter 8. A NEW FORCE DISTURBS
THE CURRENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
BOOK FOUR
THE CLOSED DOOR
Chapter 1. THE RENCOUNTER BY THE POOL . . . . . .311 Chapter 2. HE IS SET UPON BY ADVERSITIES
BUT HE SINGS A SONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319 Chapter 3. SHE GOES OUT TO BATTLE
AGAINST DEPRESSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332 Chapter 4. ROUGH COERCION IS EMPLOYED . . . . . .347 Chapter 5. THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE HEATH. . . .356 Chapter 6. A CONJUNCTURE, AND ITS RESULT UPON THE PEDESTRIAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362 Chapter 7. THE TRAGIC MEETING OF TWO OLD FRIENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .375 Chapter 8. EUSTACIA HEARS OF GOOD
FORTUNE, AND BEHOLDS EVIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385
BOOK FIVE
THE DISCOVERY
Chapter 1. “WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN
TO HIM THAT IS IN MISERY”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397 Chapter 2. A LURID LIGHT BREAKS IN UPON
A DARKENED UNDERSTANDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407
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Chapter 3. EUSTACIA DRESSES HERSELF
ON A BLACK MORNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .419
Chapter 4. THE MINISTRATIONS
OF A HALF-FORGOTTEN ONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429
Chapter 5. AN OLD MOVE INADVERTENTLY
REPEATED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .436
Chapter 6. THOMASIN ARGUES WITH HER
COUSIN, AND HE WRITES A LETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .444
Chapter 7. THE NIGHT OF THE SIXTH
OF NOVEMBER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .453
Chapter 8. RAIN, DARKNESS, AND ANXIOUS
WANDERERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .463
Chapter 9. SIGHTS AND SOUNDS DRAW
THE WANDERERS TOGETHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .476
BOOK SIX
AFTERCOURSES
Chapter 1. THE INEVITABLE MOVEMENT
ONWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .491
Chapter 2. THOMASIN WALKS
IN A GREEN PLACE BY THE ROMAN ROAD . . . . . . . . . .502
Chapter 3. THE SERIOUS DISCOURSE
OF CLYM WITH HIS COUSIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .506
Chapter 4. CHEERFULNESS AGAIN ASSERTS
ITSELF AT BLOOMS-END, AND CLYM FINDS HIS . . . .513
PREFACE
The date at which the following events are assumed to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850, when the old watering place herein called “Budmouth” still retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety and prestige to lend it an absorbing attractiveness to the romantic and imaginative soul of a lonely dweller inland.
Under the general name of “Egdon Heath,” which has been given to the sombre scene of the story, are united or typified heaths of various real names, to the number of at least a dozen; these being virtually one in character and aspect, though their original unity, or partial unity, is now somewhat disguised by intrusive strips and slices brought under the plough with varying degrees of success, or planted to woodland.
It is pleasant to dream that some spot in the extensive tract whose southwestern quarter is here described, may be the heath of that traditionary King of Wessex – Lear.
July, 1895.
“To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly;
She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her,
But ah! she is so constant and so kind.”